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Introduction
| Editorial-Issue 9, Volume 6 |
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Jerremie Clyde |
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Guest editor Jerremie Clyde introduces our Spring 2012 issue...
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Dimensions of Design
| Beyond the “Historical” Simulation: Using Theories of History to Inform Scholarly Game Design. |
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Jerremie Clyde, Howard Hopkins, Glenn Wilkinson |
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The authors of this paper present a case for a gamic mode of history that focuses on the construction of the historical narrative via procedural...
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| Designing Digital Games to Teach Road Safety: A Study of Graduate Students’ Experiences |
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Qing Li, Richard Tay, Robert Louis |
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In this paper, we present a framework for designing digital educational games to teach road safety rules specific to Alberta. The framework is...
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Probes and Enquiries
| Playing Attention: The Hermeneutic Problems of Reading Ico Closely |
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Peter Douglas McDonald |
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This article argues that paying attention to the specifics of a videogame involves a difficult problem of interpreting the meaning of repeated...
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| The practical and theoretical implications of flow theory and intrinsic motivation in designing and implementing exergaming in the school environment |
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Dwayne P Sheehan, Larry Katz |
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Helping children develop a positive attitude toward being active for life is a primary objective for physical educators. The cultivation of an...
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| A Comparison of Exergaming Interfaces for Use in Rehabilitation Programs and Research |
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Kazumoto Tanaka, J.R. Parker, Graham Baradoy, Dwayne Sheehan, John R. Holash, Larry Katz |
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Exergames or active video games are video games with interfaces that require active involvement and the exertion of physical force by participants....
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Reflection and Review
| The Dreamcast, Console of the Avant-Garde |
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Nick Montfort, Mia Consalvo |
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We argue that the Dreamcast hosted a remarkable amount of videogame development that went beyond the odd and unusual and is interesting considerd...
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| To Automaticity and Beyond: Narrative Interpretation in Game and Novel |
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Margaret Mackey |
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Common wisdom often posits that game-playing is the enemy of reading, that it offers one of a plethora of “distractions” that seduce people...
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Abstracts
| Abstracts from the 2011 Exergaming Symposium, University of Calgary. |
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Larry Katz, Jerremie Clyde |
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Recent work being conducted on exergaming in the field of Canadian game studies...
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This publication has been generously supported by Simon Fraser University through the Research Opportunities Committee, Faculty of Education and through a serial publications fund grant awarded by the University Publications Committee.
ISSN 1923-2691
